Hans-Martin Majewski

Der veruntreute Himmel (1990)

Der Schimmelreiter (1978)

After the death of his father, the ambitious farmhand Hauke Haien works his way up to become the successor to the old dyke count, whose daughter Elke he marries. He develops plans for the construction of a new dyke to provide better protection against stor ...

The Standard (1977)

During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, ...

Die Elixiere des Teufels (1976)

Monk Medardus, administrator of the relic chamber of a Capuchin monastery, drinks from the elixirs of the devil and is confronted with the dark sides of his soul. ...

The Spy Who Never Was (1976)

A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing him, but instead they set their sights on the wrong man. Left in the wake of their mistaken pursuit is a ...

A Lost Life (1976)

In this docudrama, police in the countryside near Berlin attempt to trick a confession out of a Polish guest worker for the 1927 murder of an eight-year-old girl. ...

Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen (1974)

The wealthy plantation owner Pinaud is brutally murdered in Ceylon. His attractive German wife Anne is suspected of the crime and arrested by Inspector Cerdan. He is ordered to take her to Colombo. But the plane on the way there gets caught in a heavy stor ...

The Devil's Female (1974)

At a girls boarding school, a beautiful blonde orphan is possessed by an evil demon. ...

Gott schützt die Liebenden (1973)

Engineer Paul Holland returns from a trip. His girlfriend Sybille has disappeared from their apartment without leaving a note. He searches for her and finds himself in the middle of a manhunt for an international drug ring. ...

Chronicle of a Passion (1973)

After World War I, widower Renier has returned to his estate Horlebecq. His sole diversion is his correspondence with the Parisian Rolande, who he met during the war. Even though his family is pressuring him into marrying his sister-in-law Emily, Renier st ...

Ready, Willing and Able (1971)

A wealthy middle-aged man tries to seduce younger women at an oceanfront resort. ...

School of Fear (1969)

A teenager named Kurrat mysteriously disappears from a German boys' school. Then a teacher is found dead; the mystery grows. ...

The Accident (1968)

The brother of a Spanish immigrant worker comes to Germany just to find out that his brother was the victim of a freak accident. ...

Mathilde Möhring (1968)

Berlin, around 1900. Art student Hugo Großmann takes his work lightly and his pleasure seriously! A friend's warnings do no good. He fails his exams. In the vegetable cellar of the widow Möhring, he finds cheap lodging and, in her daughter Mathilde, the ...

Rheinsberg (1967)

Kurt Hoffmann's film adaptation of Tucholsky's eponymous novella is situated in 1910s Berlin: The aspiring editor Wolf runs into Claire by chance. Both are attracted to one another, yet they are not entirely certain about their feelings. They embark on a t ...

Farewells (1966)

The captain of a ship in port has been entrusted with a secret government mission. He gives leave to the crew, but orders them to report back each morning. As the days go by, and the sailing date still remains a secret, the crew are thrown into a state of ...

Drei Tage bis Mitternacht (1966)

The socialist dream collapses. ...

Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte (1966)

Mach's Beste draus (1965)

Bernhard Lichtenberg (1965)

Ich fahre Patschold (1964)

At the center of the story are building contractor Patschold, who juggles advances and loans, and his shrewd chauffeur Göhrke. Patschold's wife almost suffers a nervous breakdown and his mistress makes ever greater demands. ...

The Visit (1964)

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big thing ...

De luitenant (1964)

A film about friendship between forsaken boys. ...

Das Glück läuft hinterher (1963)

Follows the life of several different people in 1960s in Germany for a few days. The story begins, when a juvenile criminal steals an old woman's handbag in a post office and throws it into a parking car, when he feels observed. But there was a lot of mone ...

Gripsholm Castle (1963)

Young lovers Kurt and Lydia spend their first vacation together in Sweden at the picturesque Gripsholm Castle. They enjoy their happy days outdoors and in the nature far away from all everyday troubles and have fun with Kurt′s old friend Karl who comes t ...

Schönes Wochenende (1962)

Escape from East Berlin (1962)

East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom. ...

Liebling, ich muß dich erschießen (1962)

The Red Pastures (1962)

A serial killer is on the run, after escaping a mental institution. He befriends a woman and her child, but the urge to strangle women with red necklaces still haunts him. ...

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962)

A mother is sentenced to one year in prison for matchmaking her underage daughter with her adult boyfriend. ...

Das Riesenrad (1961)

The story of a marriage over time, based on a play by Jan de Hartog. Maria Schell and O. W. Fischer play an aristocratic Austrian couple who meet during the imperial era and experience the first five decades of the 20th century together: temptations and tr ...

The Miracle of Father Malachia (1961)

The ardent prayer of a monk brings about a true miracle in a West German industrial town, which, however, is not understood by the people but only exploited as a lucrative sensation. ...

The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961)

Florestan Mississippi, a public prosecutor by profession, visits a lady named Anastasia and, while drinking coffee with her, convicts her of poisoning her husband. At the same time, he asks for her hand in marriage, as he too has killed his wife with poiso ...

Sacred Waters (1960)

Water is a scarce and sometimes dangerous resource in the Swiss Mountain Village. Anytime the wooden pipe is damaged and the supply breaks, one man from the village is determined by "unlucky" draw to take on the life-threatening repairs. ...

Agatha, let the murdering be! (1960)

A black comedy about a female author of crime novels who becomes a victim of a macabre hoax. ...

Brainwashed (1960)

Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess. ...

Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen (1960)

The film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part of Germany and forced millions of civilians to flee in the coldest of winter. While the Russians invaded Ostpreussen hundred of thousands of civilians were evacu ...

Ich schwöre und gelobe (1960)

Bumerang (1960)

The paths of three men cross for a short time in post-war Berlin. Robert and Willy are unattached and unemployed, Georg has joined them from Hamburg, he has a family and occasionally does something crooked. That's what the three of them are up to together: ...

Enchanting Arabella (1959)

The Bridge (1959)

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm f ...

Labyrinth (1959)

Georgia Gale was a great poet, but then she stopped writing and started drinking heavily. Now, as a desperate last resort, she has traveled to Switzerland, where she hopes to find a cure. ...

People in the Net (1959)

Espionage thriller about a married couple caught in the middle of dueling spy organisations. ...

And That on Monday Morning (1959)

Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays ho ...

Die Halbzarte (1959)

Nicole is a young librarian who writes romantic poetry. A successful new erotic novel, gives her the idea to secretly write a daring play, only about sex. ...

As Long as the Heart Still Beats (1958)

The Restless Night (1958)

1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means ...

Warum sind sie gegen uns? (1958)

The young unskilled worker Günter is employed in a foundry and spends his free time with friends of the same age. Together they form a motorcycle gang. But then Günter meets the daughter of an authorized signatory, Gisela, whose parents do not take kindl ...

Der Maulkorb (1958)

Out of outrage, the usually proper prosecutor Treskow, after a night of heavy drinking, adorns the statue of the local ruler with a muzzle. The next morning, he can't remember a thing due to his intoxication. In the meantime, his act has been discovered an ...

The Man in the Stream (1958)

61-year-old Paul Hinrichs impersonates being 10 year younger in order to get a job as diver once again. ...

Wet Asphalt (1958)

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. ...

The Copper (1958)

Otto Friedrich Dennert is a celebrated veteran of the Essen police force. While investigating a series of killings of women he reaches retirement age. The case is taken over by a new team, including Dennert's son Harry. Convinced that they have arrested th ...

Scampolo (1958)

Scampolo is a young, poor girl who lives on the island of Ischia. She falls in love with a young architect who hopes to win a design competition. Scampolo intecedes on his behalf with the minister and helps him to make his dream come true. ...

El Hakim (1957)

A young Egyptian doctor leaves his uneducated, dance girl lady friend behind while he focuses on fighting poverty and superstition. Years later, rich and famous, on a trip to Paris he discovers her again, in a night club. ...

The Fox of Paris (1957)

Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretly transmit secret documents to the Allies. While carrying out this mission, the commander falls under the ...

Sharks and Little Fish (1957)

Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive. ...

Ferien auf Immenhof (1957)

The pony hotel has just been opened, but so far no guests have arrived. Dick gets Ralf to design a brochure about the hotel. The girls and Ethelbert then lead the village children on horseback to Lübeck, where they all distribute the brochure - not knowin ...

Der tolle Bomberg (1957)

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The Star of Africa (1957)

Biographic movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa. ...

Confessions of Felix Krull (1957)

Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel. ...

Liebe (1956)

Anna falls madly in love with an Italian violinist, who instead marries her sister Monika. ...

Kitty and the Great Big World (1956)

The young Kitty is drawn into the world of international politics by chance. ...

Hochzeit auf Immenhof (1956)

The Immenhof has been closed by officials, awaiting auction. In the meantime, Angela has died, so Jochen is now a widower. Oma Jantzen and Angela's younger sisters Dick and Dalli live with him in the forester's house. In order to save the manor house, Dall ...

Heute heiratet mein Mann (1956)

The talkative dentist Dr. Agartz lets the drill whir and tries to entertain his patient Thesi Petersen with the latest society gossip: the famous Hamburg architect Robert Petersen is about to remarry. The new girl's name is Karin Nielsen and she comes "fro ...

Ich suche Dich (1956)

Dr. Paul Venner, a headstrong young doctor, is working on the development of a serum to renew destroyed brain cells. He is watched with skepticism by his colleagues, whom he repeatedly snubs with his cynical manner. Physician Françoise Maurer also feels h ...

Alibi (1955)

An industrialist's wife was killed and now her lover is accused of murder. ...

Furlough on Word of Honor (1955)

Hanussen (1955)

In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis. ...

Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox (1955)

Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model (1955)

The romantic conflicts of a runaway young woman who works as a model and is courted by two journalists... ...

Double Destiny (1954)

A soldier fighting for France loses his memory and has a second career as a national leader, but in Germany. ...

The Flying Classroom (1954)

The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students' essays and e ...

No Way Back (1954)

A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war. ...

Das Nachtgespenst (1953)

Tobias Knopp, Adventure of a Bachelor (1953)

The wealthy man Tobias Knopp becomes ever more lonely and quirky over the years. He had let himself go, his girth increased significantly, and his hair fell out. Over that, he waited too long for the right woman and stayed a bachelor involuntarily. But now ...

Primanerinnen (1951)

Love '47 (1949)

A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences. ...

Blockierte Signale (1948)

Flucht ins Dunkel (1939)

Morgenstern am Abend (1973)

No Way Back (1954)

A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war. ...